Game-board.



No. 829,222. PATBNTED AUG. 21 1906. E. M. MIKKELSEN. GAME BOARD.

APPLIOATIOH FILED JULY 13.1903.

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EDWARD M. MIKKELSEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

GAME-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

IE atented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed July 13, 1903- Serial No. 165,262.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L'EDWARD M. MIKKEL- SEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, county of (look, State of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Game-Boards; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates in general to game apparatus, and more particularly to gameboards.

It is customary to rovide game-boards dcsi ned for use in p aying crokinole and simi ar games with bumpers or pins projecting above the surface of the board, between which disks or rings are adapted to be propelled and into contact with which the disks or rings are often driven in playing the game. Prior to my invention game-boards of the character referred to had been provided with rubber bumpers, which, however, were expensive in cost and unsatisfactory in use, owing to the lack of resiliency in the rubber and also to the failure of the rubber bum )ers to produce any sound from the impact 0 the disks or rings therewith.

The primary object of my invention is to provide a ame-board in connection with which woo en rings are used in playing crokinole and similar games and having bumpers or pins made of wood projecting above the surface of the board to receive theim act of the rings when they are driven towar the center of the board.

A further object of my invention is to provide a game apparatus of the character de scribed with wooden pins, thereby reducing the cost of the board and improving the efficiency thereof.

My invention, generally described, consists in securing to the wa ing-surface of a gameboard a series of wooden bumpers or pins, each bumper or pin having a vertical hole through which a screw extends into engagement with the board.

My invention will be more fully described hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which the same is illustrated as embodied in a convenient and practical form, and in which- Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2, a cross-sec- B B indicate corner-pockets, which may, if

desired, be provided to adapt the board for playin various games.

C, and C indicate concentric circles upon the playing-surface of the board, and C a small circle located concentrically within the inner circle O.

D D indicate a series of bumpers or pins located at predetermined intervals around the circle 0.

F indicates a wooden ring used in playing crokinole and similar games and which is adapted to be propelled between adjacent bumpers D into the small central circle 0. The bumpers D are formed of wood and are preferably secured to the upper surface of the board bf means of screws E passit g through vertical holes in the bumpers and engag ng the material of the board. The upper ends of the holes through the bumpers D are countersunk, as shown at D, to permit the heads of the screws to lie below the u )per ends of the bumpers. The holes througli the bum ers are preferably made slightly larger in (ii ameter than the screws.

The employment of wood rather than rubber as the material of which the bumpers are formed results in a number of advanta es. The wooden bumpers are less expensive t an the rubber ones and reduce the cost of the board. They may be more readily secured in the desired locations upon the board and in vertical positions, owing to the fact that the securing-screws are held in vertical positions when being screwed into the board by the surroundin bumpers and the engagement between t e flat bottoms of the bump ers, and the flat surface of the board insures the screws assuming vertical positions even though initially engaged with the board in. inclined positions. A further advantage in using wooden bumpers is that when the board is reversible and the surface provided with the bumpers rests above the supportingtable the countersunk recesses in the ends of the bumpers prevent the heads of the screws from scratching or marring the table, while at the same time the board is directly supported at its center upon the table by means of the bumpers. Other advantages which have been found in practice to be derived from the use of wooden bumpers are that when used in connection with wooden rings, such as F they afford greater resiliency than rubber and at the same time produce a ringin sound when engaged by the rings, which ad ds to the attractiveness of the game.

From the foregoing description it will be observed that I have provided an improved game-board which is simple and inexpensive in manufacture and upon which crokinole and similar games may be layed more satisfactorilythan upon similar oards made prior to my invention.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with a game-board, of wooden bumpers having vertical holes therethrough, fastening devices extending through said holes in the bumpers into engagement with the board thereby securing the bumpers to the board, the diameter of said fastening devices being less than the diameter of the holes through the bumpers, and movable devices adapted to be propelled between adjacent bumpers.

2. The combination with a reversible gameboard, of a frame extending around the edges of the board and projecting above the surface thereof, wooden bumpers projecting above the surface of the board and terminating in the same horizontalplane as the top edges of said frame said bumpers having vertical holes therethrough and countersunk recesses on the to )s of the holes, and fastening devices exten ing through the holes in the bumpers into engagement with the board, the heads of the fastening devices being received within the countersunk recesses in the bumpers.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

EDWARD M. MIKKELSEN.

Witnesses GEO. L. VVILKIN soN, C. C. CUNNINGHAM. 

